#a girl can dream okay

[dawnstruck]

What if...

In honor of the “a sex tag has been added to the series warnings”, I just suggested the following scenario to my friend. After all, since we got Viktor nearly dying while Mel and Jayce got their freak on in S1, why not have another fun, totally meaningless montage that features no symbolism whatsoever?

Please imagine:

Cait and Vi, finally locked in a passionate embrace. Months of ‘will they, won’t they’ coming to an end. They’re somewhere intimate, private. Cait’s rooms at the Kiramman mansion perhaps, where they spent that first soft encounter. Away from prying eyes and people who demand their attention. Just the two of them. Kissing, shedding clothes.

Simultaneously, Viktor and Jayce, on a battlefield of their own making. Throwing each other around, leaving chinks in each other’s armor. Years of friendship, of partnership, of congeniality destroyed with blow after blow.

Cait and Vi, all soft smiles and quiet laughter and shy nods, enthusiastic consent all the way.

Jayce and Viktor, snarling and growling, Jayce’s teeth bared, Viktor’s face hidden by an impersonal mask.

Cait’s shirt coming off, her milk white skin pressed close against Vi’s tattoos.

One of Viktor’s gloves tearing, revealing his hand corrupted by the HexCore, his unnatural fingers closing around Jayce’s vulnerable, human neck.

Vi, strong and playful, flipping Cait around on the bed, pillows bouncing.

Viktor slamming Jayce into a wall, concrete crumbling.

Vi’s hand, fondling Cait’s breast, caressing a pink nipple. Cait moaning in response.

Viktor sinking his HexClaw into Jayce‘s chest. Jayce crying out, agonized.

A close-up of Cait, sweat soaked, hair damp, clearly sated, whispering “I love you” against Vi’s kiss-bitten lips.

Jayce, tired and broken, blood running down his brow, trickling from his mouth, gasping, “Viktor, I-“

“We should do that again sometime, cupcake,” Vi laughs, falling back against the sheets, holding Cait close.

“It ends here, Jayce,” Viktor says, letting Jayce fall to the ground. Leaving him for dead, just like Jayce left him before.

“I’m sure it can be arranged,” Cait huffs back, turning her face to nuzzle Vi’s shoulder.

Jayce does not reply.

[sincerelymarner]

i desperately need them to recreate this when they’re all on the same team again

[ecstarry]

thank you for the tag @prongsfish mwuaah <3

np tags @fromagony @star4daisy @malchai @sixlane @bellaxisworld @c0mbatchameleon @poetskings @starchaserwrites @staringathesunbabe

[missmako-chan]

…So do you think we could eventually get a Kaitou Joker Encore anime—

[synintheraven]

I don't wanna come off as rude here but just saw some people who drew Arnas/Sihtric (great drawings btw <3) and sorry if this is shitty of me but he didn't like those yet he DID like mine ??

Maybe it's the fact I'm still processing it but what a boost in confidence like from all those people doing great work he chose my shit 🥺🥺

[daydreamy-winter]

I don’t think this is goong to happen but I like silly theories, so. what if [EVERY] happens during the first half of the first episode. like. there is no way to be mentally prepared for that

[sparkles-and-trash]

Me casually mentioning it’s my birthday in a few days hehe

[moonverus]

Me : P10L will have 24 episodes

My brain : So what it meas is that we can also have FirstKhao series with more than 20 episodes in the future, right?!?

[minispidey]

That's actually me in the video haha

Lucien Flores

Video and pics from joelismiller on X

[radioactive-cloud]

i wonder if in the highly unlikely scenario of me going to therapy it's enough to show the therapist my posts on social media for them to prescribe me a cure that will make it better instantly and irreversibly and with no pain

[cuntylestat]

me explaining how we only hear from armand about claudia's death and he's a big fat liar so maybe she and madeleine made it out and are living their beautiful lesbian vampiric lives together

[inkskinned]

one of the things that i think we should pay attention to, socially, about the disney v. desantis thing is that it is really highlighting the importance of remembering nuance.

in a purely neutral sense, if you engage in something problematic, that does not mean you are necessarily agreeing with what makes it problematic. and i am worried that we have become... so afraid of any form of nuance.

disney isn't my friend, they're a corporate monopoly that bastardized copyright laws for their own benefit, ruin the environment, and abuse their workers (... and many other things). this isn't a hypothetical for me - i grew up in florida. i also worked for the actual Walt Disney World; like, in the parks. i am keenly aware of the ways they hurt people, because they hurt me. i fully believe that part of the reason florida is so conservative is because it's been an "open secret" for years now that disney lobbies the government to keep minimum wage down, and i know they worked hard to keep the parks unmasked and open during the worst parts of Covid. they purposefully keep their employees in poverty. they are in part responsible for the way the floridian government works.

desantis is still, by a margin that is frankly daunting, way worse. the alternative here isn't just "republicans win", it's actual fascism.

in a case like this, where the alternative is to allow actual fascism into united states legislation - where, if desantis wins, there are huge and legal ramifications - it's tempting to minimize the harm disney is also doing, because... well, it's not fascism. but disney isn't the good guy, either, which means republicans are having a field day asking activists oh, so you think their treatment of their employees is okay?

we have been trained there is a right answer. you're right! you're in the good group, and you're winning at having an opinion.

except i have the Internet Prophecy that in 2-3 months, even left-wing people will be ripping apart activists for having "taken disney's side". aren't i an anti-capitalist? aren't i pro-union? aren't i one of the good ones? removed from context and nuance (that in this particular situation i am forced to side with disney, until an other option reveals itself), my act of being like "i hope they have goofy rip his throat out onstage, shaking his lifeless body like a dog toy" - how quickly does that seem like i actually do support disney?

and what about you! at home, reading this. are you experiencing the Thought Crime of... actually liking some of the things disney has made? your memories of days at the parks, or of good movies, or of your favorite show growing up. maybe you are also evil, if you ever enjoyed anything, ever, at all.

to some degree, the binary idealization/vilification of individual motive and meaning already exists in the desantis case. i have seen people saying not to go to the disney pride events because they're cash grabs (they are). i've seen people saying you have to go because they're a way to protest. there isn't a lot of internet understanding of nuance. instead it's just "good show of support" or "evil bootlicking."

this binary understanding is how you can become radicalized. when we fear nuance and disorder, we're allowing ourselves the safety of assuming that the world must exist in binary - good or bad, problematic or "not" problematic. and unfortunately, bigots want you to see the world in this binary ideal. they want you to get mad at me because "disney is taking a risk for our community but you won't sing their praises" and they want me to get mad at you for not respecting the legit personal trauma that disney forced me through.

in a grander scheme outside of disney: what happens is a horrific splintering within activist groups. we bicker with each other about minimal-harm minimal-impact ideologies, like which depiction of bisexuality is the most-true. we gratuitously analyze the personal lives of activists for any sign they might be "problematic". we get spooked because someone was in a dog collar at pride. we wring our hands about setting an empty shopping mall on fire. we tell each other what words we may identify ourselves by. we get fuckin steven universe disk horse when in reality it is a waste of our collective time.

the bigots want you to spend all your time focusing on how pristine and pretty you and your interests are. they want us at each other's throats instead of hand in hand. they want to say see? nothing is ever fucking good enough for these people.

and they want their followers to think in binary as well - a binary that's much easier to follow. see, in our spaces, we attack each other over "proper" behavior. but in bigoted groups? they attack outwards. they have someone they hate, and it is us. they hate you, specifically, and you are why they have problems - not the other people in their group. and that's a part of how they fucking keep winning.

some of the things that are beloved to you have a backbone in something terrible. the music industry is a wasteland. the publishing industry is a bastion of white supremacy. video games run off of unpaid labor and abuse.

the point of activism was always to bring to light that abuse and try to stop it from happening, not to condemn those who engage in the content that comes from those industries. "there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism" also applies to media. your childhood (and maybe current!) love of the little mermaid isn't something you should now flinch from, worried you'll be a "disney adult". wanting the music industry to change for the better does not require that you reject all popular music until that change occurs. you can acknowledge the harm something might cause - and celebrate the love that it has brought into your life.

we must detach an acknowledgment of nuance from a sense of shame and disgust. we must. punishing individual people for their harmless passions is not doing good work. encouraging more thoughtful, empathetic consumption does not mean people should feel ashamed of their basic human capacities and desires. it should never have even been about the individual when the corporation is so obviously the actual evil. this sense that we must live in shame and dread of our personal nuances - it just makes people bitter and hopeless. do you have any idea how scared i am to post this? to just acknowledge the idea of nuance? that i might like something nuanced, and engage in it joyfully? and, at the same time, that i'm brutally aware of the harm that they're doing?

"so what do i do?" ... well, often there isn't a right answer. i mean in this case, i hope mickey chops off ron's head and then does a little giggle. but truth be told, often our opinions on nuanced subjects will differ. you might be able to engage in things that i can't because the nuance doesn't sit right with me. i might think taylor swift is a great performer and a lot of fun, and you might be like "raquel, the jet fuel emissions". we are both correct; neither of us have any actual sway in this. and i think it's important to remember that - the actual scope of individual responsibility. like, i also love going to the parks. Thunder Mountain is so fun. you (just a person) are not responsible for the harm that Disney (the billion dollar corporation) caused me. i don't know. i think it's possible to both enjoy your memories and interrogate the current state of their employment policies.

there is no right way to interrogate or engage with nuance - i just hope you embrace it readily.

[dreamnotnapss]

knew it was a long shot but i’m still going dark

GEORGE STREAMING WITH AN UNEXPECTED GUEST ON TUESDAY IN LONDON OH PLEASE

[eraofthirteen]

So like most people I had two theories going into this ep about Mother Darkness- either she was Shub or Lillith (or, I suppose, some Harlan Guthrie curveball where she's just not mythos-born at all)

Then the ep dropped and um. "The Witch", "The Shroud", many faces, around since life first appeared, not asleep but active, a hivemind, interconnected physical forms, powerful yet requiring sacrifice from her followers to maintain this form of existence

And I'm like Yidhra??? Yidhra the Mother? The Life-Giver? Yidhra the Restless One, sending her followers forth to seek new blood for her endless change? Yidhra the Dream-Witch? Yidhra the Shrouder, wreathing the faithless in shadow; Shrouder, devouring the errant and hostile ones, Shrouder, who hides men forever??? Is that you, queen?????

[localemofreak]

Would y’all judge me if I made a fic about Joost Klein to The Color Violet by Tony Lanez..

Idk man, crazy frog Europapa man has taken over me 😖

[mariatesstruther]

okay but a version of events in which tommy takes ellie to the fireflies, but NEITHER of them come back. and maria joel have to work together to get them back